Seven Years Of Marriage Lost In One Rainy Night

Synopsis

In the seventh year of my marriage to Evan White, his old flame, the one he never seemed to get over, walked back into our lives. She was a well-known actress, standing on my front porch in the pouring rain, mascara running down her cheeks. "Evan, I had a terrible fight with him, and I've got nowhere else to go." My husband, the most soft-spoken man I knew, hurled a coffee mug against the wall. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind." And my seven-year-old son dropped his action figures and bolted to the door. "Don't cry, lady. When I'm older, I'll marry you." While they all tripped over themselves to comfort her, I stood stranded outside the grocery store, caught in the same storm, my calls not connecting. A cab pulled up beside me. "Hey, lady, you need a lift?" I looked down at the grocery bag in my hand, then at the two hundred dollars to my name, and asked, "How far can I get with two hundred bucks?"